State gives condemned inmate a brief reprieve (Albert Greenwood Brown)

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

(09-27) 18:57 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Condemned murderer Albert Greenwood Brown won a brief reprieve Monday in his scheduled execution while his lawyers took their case against California's new lethal injection procedures to state and federal courts.

Hours after a Marin County judge refused to prohibit the state from putting Brown to death for the 1980 rape and murder of a 15-year-old Riverside girl, prison officials announced a 45-hour postponement of the execution, which had been scheduled at a minute after midnight Tuesday.

Brown is now scheduled to die at 9 p.m. Thursday at San Quentin State Prison. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued a statement saying the reprieve was needed because a state court injunction against executions will not expire until Thursday.

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